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Take-Home Exploration Quiz
The purpose of this quiz is to help you become very familiar with valuable therapeutic recreation web sites.  Below is a very short list of sites to get you started.  Please utilize them to acquire the information in the following questions.  Please do not stop at ONLY these questions or websites.  Explore, Search, and Find out about your profession!
http://www.atra-online.com
http://www.nctrc.org/
http://www.recreationtherapy.com/
1) Find and print at least TWO definitions of therapeutic recreation.
• Further, "Recreational Therapy” means a treatment service designed to restore, remediate and rehabilitate a person’s level of functioning and independence in life activities, to promote health and wellness as well as reduce or eliminate the activity limitations and restrictions to participation in life situations caused by an illness or disabling condition
• Therapeutic recreation is the provision of Treatment Services and the provision of Recreation Services to persons with illnesses or disabling conditions.
2) Find and print at least TWO philosophies about what TR is for.
• As a therapeutic recreation major, you’ll learn how to use activities like gardening to help people overcome obstacles and improve their lives. https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/majors/health-professions-related-clinical-sciences-rehabilitation-therapy-therapeutic-recreati
• A recreational therapist utilizes a wide range of interventions (Word .doc) and techniques to improve the physical, cognitive, emotional, social and leisure needs of their clients. A recreational therapist works with the client, their family members and others significant to the improvement of their health condition. Recreational therapists assist clients to develop skills, knowledge and behaviors for daily living and community involvement. The goal of recreational therapy is to restore, remediate or rehabilitate in order to improve functioning and independence as well as reduce or eliminate the effects of illness or disability. http://www.healthpronet.org/ahp_month/07_04.html
3) Find and print a code of ethics.
Code of Ethics
The American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s Code of Ethics is to be used as a guide for promoting and maintaining the highest standards of ethical behavior. The Code applies to all Recreational Therapy personnel. The term Recreational Therapy personnel includes Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists (CTRS), recreational therapy assistants and recreational therapy students. Acceptance of membership in the American Therapeutic Recreation Association commits a member to adherence to these principles.
Principle 1:
Beneficence
Recreational Therapy personnel shall treat persons served in an ethical manner by actively making efforts to provide for their well-being by maximizing possible benefits and relieving, lessening, or minimizing possible harm.
Principle 2:
Non-Maleficence
Recreational Therapy personnel have an obligation to use their knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgment to help persons while respecting their decisions and protecting them from harm.
Principle 3:
Autonomy
Recreational Therapy personnel have a duty to preserve and protect the right of each individual to make his/her own choices. Each individual is to be given the opportunity to determine his/her own course of action in accordance with a plan freely chosen. In the case of individuals who are unable to exercise autonomy with regard to their care, recreational therapy personnel have the duty to respect the decisions of their qualified legal representative.
Principle 4:
Justice
Recreational Therapy personnel are responsible for ensuring that individuals are served fairly and that there is equity in the distribution of services. Individuals should receive services without regard to race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, disease/disability, social and financial status.
Principle 5:
Fidelity
Recreational Therapy personnel have an obligation, first and foremost, to be loyal, faithful, and meet commitments made to persons receiving services. In addition, Recreational Therapy personnel have a secondary obligation to colleagues, agencies, and the profession.
Principle 6:
Veracity
Recreational Therapy personnel shall be truthful and honest. Deception, by being dishonest or omitting what is true, should always be avoided.
Principle 7:
Informed Consent
Recreational Therapy personnel should provide services characterized by mutual respect and shared discussion making. These personnel are responsible for providing each individual receiving service with information regarding the services, benefits, outcomes, length of treatment, expected activities, risk and limitations, including the professional’s training and credentials. Informed consent is obtained when information needed to make a reasoned decision is provided by the professional to competent persons seeking services who then decide whether or not to accept the treatment.
Principle 8:
Confidentiality & Privacy
Recreational Therapy personnel have a duty to disclose all relevant information to persons seeking services: they also have a corresponding duty not to disclose private information to third parties. If a situation arises that requires disclosure of confidential information about an individual (ie: to protect the individual’s welfare or the interest of others) the professional has the responsibility to inform the individual served of the circumstances.
Principle 9:
Competence
Recreational Therapy personnel have the responsibility to maintain and improve their knowledge related to the profession and demonstrate current, competent practice to persons served. In addition, personnel have an obligation to maintain their credential.
Principle 10:
Compliance with Laws and Regulations
Recreational Therapy personnel are responsible for complying with local, state and federal laws, regulations and ATRA policies governing the profession of Recreational Therapy
4) Find and print TWO standards of practice.
• Treatment planning
• Plan implementation
5) Find (and report where you found it) a historical timeline.
• 1752 Pennsylvania Hospital is established in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin was involved in drafting the petition for its establishment. Inmates were provided with light manual labor such as spinning and carding wool for activity.
• 1780 Clement Joseph Tissot publishes the book "Gymnastique Medicinale et Churgicale" recommending "prescribed craft and recreational activities as therapeutic exercise for the treatment of disabled muscles and joints following disease or injury."
• 1801 Pinel publishes a book "Medical philosophical treatise on mental alienation" describing the method as "prescribed physical exercises and manual occupations." It is the first reference in literature to the medically prescribed use of activity for remediation.
• 1880s The settlement house concept begins in England
• 1889 Hull House, Chicago, IL, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, provides community services and recreation to the poor
• 1906 National Recreation Association founded
• 1948 American Recreation Society, Hospital Recreation Section
• 1948 College Recreation Association founded
• 196? First Special Olympics
• 1973 PL 93-113 Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504
• http://www.recreationtherapy.com/history/rthistory2002.htm
6) Find TWO other TR related web sites that would be helpful to a new professional.
http://www.recreationtherapy.com/history/rthistory2002.htm
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/recreational-therapists.htm

7) Find the application for the National Certification Exam.
http://nctrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fa2-nctrc-professional-eligiability-application.pdf
8) Report the date for the next exam application deadline.
Exam: May 2-14, 2016
Application deadline: Jan. 6-Mar 5, 2016
9) Find salary information and report in a format you like (average, median, range etc.).
Government $52,770
Hospitals; state, local, and private 46,690
Ambulatory healthcare services 41,400
Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) 38,960
Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly 37,740
10) Find and report on the Exam Content areas and study helps.
• Theories and concepts
• Practice guidelines
• Diagnosis groupings
• Implementation of assessment
• Assessment domains
• Documentation
• Implementation
• Advancement of the profession
• Administration of service
• For sample questions: http://nctrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HT8-cbt-sample-questions.pdf